1, will be set to cE only when ALL savesets on that volume are out of their retention time, and no other savesets depend on any of them.
2, to AFTD, it will perform 'garbage collection' when u start a save session, which means, nw will delete those savesets from AFTD when they are out of their retention.
3, retention policy is form savesets, to my understanding, as any save set on that volume is still in it's retention time, or have any other saveset depends on it, the whole voulme will not be recycled unless u manually do that.
4, no, u can always rebuild CFI and MMDB as long as u keep tapes unrelabeled.
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